Posts from October 2024
Good and Evil – Who Decides? Part 2
Good and Evil – Who Decides? Part 2 Biblical theists like C S Lewis are not alone in recognising that if there is no God “all moral judgements (are) … statements about the speaker’s feelings” and nothing more (Part 1). In his influential 1979 essay Unspeakable Ethics, Unnatural Law [Unspeakable Ethics, Unnatural Law (duke.edu)] Yale Law School professor Arthur Allen Leff bluntly states: The so-called death of God turns out not to have been just His funeral; it also seems…
Good and Evil Who Decides Pt 1
Good and Evil – Who Decides? Pt. 1 In her 1969 counterculture anthem Woodstock, songwriter Joni Mitchell intones: “We are stardust, we are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves Back to the garden.” Of course, there is no getting ourselves back to the Garden. We live in a decaying universe which “groans and suffers” (Rom 8:22) because our first parents succumbed to temptation and disobeyed the LORD God when they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and…